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Hybrid Constitutions: Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America

Hybrid Constitutions: Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America

Hsueh, Vicki

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Colonial Period (1600-1775)General Political Science

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ISBN10: 0822346184
ISBN13: 9780822346180
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 27 2010
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In Hybrid Constitutions, Vicki Hsueh contests the idea that early-modern colonial constitutions were part of a uniform process of modernization, conquest, and assimilation. Through detailed analyses of the founding of several seventeenth-century English proprietary colonies in North America, she reveals how diverse constitutional thought and practice were at the time, and how colonial ambitions were advanced through cruelty toward indigenous peoples as well as accommodation of them. Proprietary colonies were governed by individuals (or small groups of individuals) granted colonial charters by the Crown. These proprietors had quasi-sovereign status over their colonies; they were able to draw on and transform English legal and political instruments as they developed constitutions. Hsueh demonstrates that the proprietors cobbled together constitutions based on the terms of their charters and the needs of their settlements. The hybrid constitutions they created were often altered based on interactions among the English settlers, other European settlers, and indigenous peoples.

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